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Sun Dial Press, 1944-01-01. Hardcover. very GOOD/None. NO DUST JACKET. Presumed first ed. with deckle edges--no d.j. to ascertain whether BCE; 321 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; back gutter cracked but gutter firm; in absence of d.j., the spine panel sunned but orange front and back boards with black lettering are unfaded and have minimal wear.

Garden City, New York: Sun Dial Press, 1944. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Three great pieces by Damon Runyon in this first Omnibus edition. Cover missing, but book is in VG condition. No age fading or spotting. Outer edges of brown board covers are slightly compressed. Base of spine is slightly bumped. Top of pages has blue coloring. Deccled edge to outer edge of pages. Pencil gift inscription from 1945 on front end page. Pages are otherwise unmarked. Tight binding. This is a nice copy for someone wanting to discover or rediscover the humor and power of Runyon's writing. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

PHILADELPHIA : J.B LIPPINCOTT , 1935. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/No Jacket. N/A. SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED BOOK STATES 1935 WITH NO OTHER PRINTINGS OR EDITIONS MENTIONED THREE WONDERFUL STORIES FROM NEW YORK'S FINEST OBSERVER OF HIS TIMES A VERY BRIGHT AND WELL PRESERVED COPY BOUND IN GREEN WITH PERFECT MAROON LETTERING VERY MINOR WEAR TO TIPS ONE SMALL INDENT AT TOP OF COVER THE WORDS BEHIND THE CLASSIC MUSICAL GUYS AND DOLLS

Philadelphia and New York: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Collected. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Mint green cloth, lettered in burgundy. Slightly rubbed extremities, minor flecking to a portion of spine panel and along top rear edge. Endpapers and text block edges are somewhat foxed/tanned. Firm binding, clean interior. 505 pp..

New York: Sun Dial Press, 1944. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Reprint Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust cloth, lettered in black. Topstain partially faded, former owner's book plate mounted inside front cover and signature stamp to front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked and nearly as issued. Color illus. dust jacket VG, mildly sunned along spine panel with 1/4" loss across crown, minor chipping to corners, mild tanning/foxing, now in mylar. 505 pp..

J. B. Lippincott, 1935. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third printing..

New York 1940 Blue Ribbon. Hardcover octavo. Blue cloth with black lettering. 321p. VG just slight wear; hinges not cracked; text clean; binding secure, no owner marks. no dj. .

N. Y.: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1936. hard cover is in very good condition with sunfade to spine with no dust jacket. is a stated fourth printing 1936. has a name and date on front fly page otherwise is unmarked and tightly bound. forward is by walter winchell. 321 pages.. 4th Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1939. 1st edition thus. Hard cover. 4. Very good. No dust jacket. Clean, crisp text block; Blue boards w/ black type bright but w/ wear to edges and spine head, foot. NOT ex-library. 321 p. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. In remarkably good condition. A 20th-century classic..

Name Inscribed FLEP, otherwise appears to be as lightly read near unblemished contents in printed tan cloth boards displaying minor surface/edge wear, as shown.
A collection of short stories about life in New York and more specifically somewhere between Time Square and Columbus Circle. Damon Runyon "has caught with a high degree of insight the actual tone and phrase of the gangsters and racketeers of the town," in referring to Guys and Dolls, (Heywood Broun).
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Garden City: The Sun Dial Press. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1944. First Edition. Hardcover. Publisher's cloth. First thus. Cloth is insected, corners lightly bumped. Firm binding/hinges, unmarked. The DJ in mylar is chipped, edgeworn, rubbed, price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 505 pages .

Garden City, New York: The Sun Dial Press, 1944. Nice copy of what may be its first printig by SunDial as no later printings noted. Unmarked, tight and square. Brown textured boards with black lettering. Price intact jacket has shallow chip at head of spine and moderate edgewear. Scarce this nice. In mylar. . First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good to Very Good Plus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Philadelphia 1934 fourth. Lippincott. Hardcover octavo. 505p. VG end papers toned; binding secure, hinges not cracked; no owner marks. In lovely full pictorial dj by Harry Beckhoff. Dj is near VG with moderate wear, price not clipped, no big ault, one tiny closed halfinch tear. light chipping on top spine end and small chip from lower spine end. .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott. 1935. Early Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in boards .

Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1935. First One-Volume Edition-First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Original green cloth with brown titles in a professionally-made facsimile dust jacket of the first edition of GUYS AND DOLLS. First one-volume edition of Runyon's three most famous works, all exceedingly scarce in early editions, and the basis for the legendary Joseph Mankiewicz film starring Marlon Brando and Frank Sinatra. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company. 1934. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in boards. Toning to boards. Small owner name ink stamp to FEP. Small ink stamp to REP. These stories inspired many films featuring famous actors of the period such as as Bob Hope, Shirley Temple, Lucille Ball, Tony Curtis, Walter Matthau, Julie Andrews, and Bob Newhart. .

Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1935. Book. Illus. by Beckhoff, Harry. Very Good. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Second printing of the first edition of this Runyon omnibus edition. Original green cloth hard covers, in spectacular wrap-around illustrated dust jacket by Harry Beckhoff. Slight handling wear to covers. Otherwise a clean, tight and unmarked book in dust jacket showing some light chipping/creasing and a little inside staining (now protected in removable archival mylar sleeve). Very neat -- a handsome volume! vi,505pp..

Frederick A. Stokes, 1934. Hardcover. Good/Good. Covers worn, with some mottling on the spine. Unclipped dust jacket worn, stained and chipped.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1934. Hardcover. Good. Foreword by Walter Winchell. Second Printing. Association Copy. Inscribed by Runyon to Steve Hannagan on the front endpaper. Good, lacking the jacket. Blue buckram, stained and worn, frayed and with spots rubbed to the boards. Square, hinges a bit tender but firm otherwise, clean internally. Runyon's second collection of stories, the follow-up to Guys and Dolls. Favorably reviewed in the New York Times as "a grand collection of hard-boiled, sentimental stories told in Damon Runyon's engaging brand of Broadway slang." Similar to Guys and Dolls, some of the stories were adapted into films, such as the case with "Little Miss Marker," which was made into the Pre-Code film starring Shirley Temple. The inscription to Hannagan is a nice association. Hannagan, called "the Prince of Press Agents" was a public relations agent during the early 20th century with clients the likes of Coca-Cola, the Indianapolis 500, Miami Beach, as well as many… Read More